ANTH-A 107 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Business, Nonverbal Communication, Symbolic Capital
Lecture before exam
• Which is an example of a focused interaction
o Passing strangers in a hallway
o Notiig a eigho’s e haido
o Playing poker
o Reading a newspaper over a fellow bus riders shoulder
• Eckert says that jocks and burnouts develop so as to provide contrast with each other in their
values, behavior and symbols. Which is one example that supports this statement?
o Burnouts smoke in doorways, stairwells, and loading docs suggesting their marginal
place in the school, while jocks embraced the facilities the school offer
• Why during her research did Bucholz have the high school students draw and label maps?
o To understand how the students imagine their social space.
• Which of the following is an example of a Socratic exchange?
o A teacher repeatedly asking a student question so the student her ideas and rhetorical
skills
• List 3 and discuss these articles that illustrate how people use verbal and non-verbal
ouiatio to aoplish soial usiess, ad talk aout hat sot of soial usiess is
being accomplished
o In simmons chapter about a girls volleyball team she mentions how females use face
saving communication to interact and build a stronger bond on their team. The social
business in this interaction is to be nice to each other to boost their teammates
relationship.
o Similarly, in Kuipers chapter about the new Zealand rugby team the author discusses
how the team uses a face threatening way to communicate which strengthens their
bond by constantly emasculating each other. The social business of this is that they are
all playing around with each other thus making them bond.
o Lastl, i Ga’s tet aout the LGBTQ ouit i Ketuk, she talks aout ho
these people will go to the local Walmart and drag around the store which shows their
values in a nonverbal way.
• What is social capital? What counts as symbolic capital in your social group? Discuss why the
sols e selet ad displa hae eal life oseuees. Da o Peelope Eket’s sols
of atego eeship i ou disussio.
o Social capital is the way people interact with each other in a particular society, enabling
them to function together. In a social group the clothes we wear, the slang we use, and
the plaes e hag out all pla a ole i the soial apital of a goup. I Eket’s chapter
about symbols of category membership she talks about the jocks and burnouts and how
they differ largely. For the jocks they have their own way of dressing, places to hang out
and things they say. For the burnouts they function completely different by wanting to
distance themselves from the school.
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